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CONSTITUTION 

» 

OF    THE 

ChIC/IGO  LlTDRARY  ClUB 

Revised  January  28,  1884, 

WITH 

LIST   OF    OFFICERS, 

SCHEMES    OF    EXERCISES. 

From  Date  of  Organization,  April  21,  1874; 

AND 

PRESENT    ROLL   OF    MEMBERS, 

April  i,  1884. 


CHICAGO: 

FERGUS    PRINTING    COMPANY, 
1884. 


CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE    I. 

THE   NAME. 
The   name   of    this    association    shall    be    the 
Chicago   Literary   Club. 

ARTICLE   IL 
THE   OBJECT. 
The  object  of  this  Club  shall  be  social,  literary, 
and  aesthetic  culture. 

ARTICLE   IIL 
THE   MEMBERS. 
Section   i.      There   shall   be   three  classes  of 
members:  Regular,  Non-Resident,  and  Honorary 
Members. 

Sec.  2.  The  Regular  members  shall  be  limited 
to  two  hundred  and  fifty  in  number,  unless  tem- 
porarily increased  by  transfers  from  the  Non-Resi- 
dent  list. 

Sec.  3.  Application  for  membership  shall  be 
in  writing  and  signed  by  three  members  of  the 
Club.  The  application  shall  state,  in  the  blank 
form  furnished  by  the  committee,  the  candidate's 
place  of  nativity,  age,  occupation,  general  qualifi- 
cations, if  the  graduate  of  a  college,   the  name 


4  CHICAGO    LITERARY   CLUB. 

of  the  college,  the  year  of  his  graduation,  and 
that  the  proposers  believe  that  the  candidate 
desires  to  become  a  member  of  the  Club. 

Sec.  4.  If  approved  by  the  Committee  on 
Officers  and  Members,  the  candidate's  name, 
with  the  names  of  his  proposers,  shall  be  con- 
spicuously posted  in  the  Club  rooms  for  two 
regular  meetings;  after  which  the  Electoral  Com- 
mittee shall  consider  the  application  and  vote 
thereon  by  secret  ballot;  and  two  blackballs  shall 
prevent  an  election.  Any  candidate  thus  elected 
shall  be  declared  a  member  of  the  Club.  No 
rejected  candidate  shall  be  again  proposed  for 
membership  within  three  months  after  his  rejec- 
tion. 

Sec.  5.  Before  taking  his  seat,  each  member- 
elect  shall  signify  his  acceptance  in  writing  to  the 
Recording  Secretary,  and  pay  to  the  Treasurer 
twelve  dollars,  dues  for  the  term  in  which  he  is 
elected.  If  he  fail  to  qualify  within  two  months 
after  he  has  been  notified  by  the  Secretary,  his 
election  shall  be  void. 

Sec.  6.  The  annual  dues  of  members  shall  be 
twenty -four  dollars,  payable  in  advance,  in  two 
equal  instalments,  namely:  on  the  first  days  of 
October  and  February. 

Sec.   7.     The  names  of  members  whose  dues 


CONSTITUTION.  5 

are  one  month  in  arrears  shall  be  posted  in  the 
Club  rooms,  by  the  Committee  on  Rooms  and 
Finance.  Notice  of  posting  shall  be  sent  to 
delinquent  members  by  the  Recording  Secretary. 

Sec.  8.  Membership  may  be  terminated  as 
follows : 

1.  By  voluntary  resignation,  provided  the  mem- 
ber resigning  has  paid  all  his  dues  to  the  Club, 
and  is  in  good  standing. 

2.  By  forfeiture,  in  case  a  member  has  been 
delinquent  for  six  months  and  duly  posted  and 
notified;  unless  he  has  been  absent  from  the  city 
during  the  whole  of  the  six  months  aforesaid. 

3.  By  the  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  regular 
members  present  at  any  regular  meeting  for  busi- 
ness, provided  that  at  the  previous  business  meet- 
ing there  shall  have  been  a  motion  regularly  made 
and  seconded,  with  reasons  given,  that  the  name 
of  the  designated  member  be  dropped  from  the 
rolls. 

Sec.  9.  Members  removing  from  the  city  and 
vicinity,  who  are  in  good  standing  and  have  paid 
all  their  dues  to  the  Club,  shall  be  enrolled  as 
Non- Resident  members,  and  be  exempt  from 
the  payment  of  annual  dues.  Resumption  of 
residence  in  Chicago  or  vicinity  shall  cause 
them  to  be  again  placed  upon  the  Regular 
Hst. 


6  CHICAGO    LITERARY   CLUB. 

Sec.  io.  Honorary  members  may  be  elected  by 
unanimous  vote  of  all  the  members  present  at  any 
regular  business  meeting  of  the  Club,  and  shall 
be  exempt  from  active  duties  and  the  payment  of 
annual  dues.     The  vote  shall  be  by  secret  ballot. 

ARTICLE   IV. 
OFFICERS. 

Section  i.  The  officers  of  the  Club  shall  be 
a  President,  as  many  Vice-Presidents  as  Standing 
Committees,  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  and  a 
Recording  Secretary,  who  shall  also  act  as  Treas- 
urer. The  Chairman  of  each  Standing  Committee 
shall  be  a  Vice-President. 

Sec.  2.  These  officers  shall  be  annually  elected 
by  ballot,  on  the  second  Monday  in  June,  or  in 
case  of  a  failure  then  to  elect,  as  soon  thereafter 
as  shall  be  practicable.  At  the  business  meet- 
ing next  preceding,  the  Committee  on  Officers 
and  Members  shall  submit  their  regular  nomina- 
tions for  all  the  offices  to  be  filled;  and  thereupon 
any  member  or  members  of  the  Club  may  make 
one  or  more  nominations  in  opposition  to  those 
of  said  committee.  The  candidates  for  whom 
the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  cast  respec- 
tively, shall  be  declared  elected.  A  special  elec- 
tion may  be  ordered  at  any  business  meeting  to 
fill  a  vacancy. 


CONSTITUTION.  7 

Sec.  3.  The  officers  of  the  Club  shall  perform 
such  duties  as  are  implied  by  their  respective 
titles,  and  such  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  the 
Constitution. 

Sec.  4.  The  officers  of  the  Club  shall  consti- 
tute an  Executive  Board  for  the  transaction  of  all 
business  not  committed  to  any  Standing  or  Special 
Committee,  and  for  the  general  management  of 
the  affairs  of  the  Club.  Three  members  of  the 
Executive  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the 
transaction  of  business. 

ARTICLE   V. 
STANDING   COMMITTEES. 

Section  i.  The  Standing  Committees  of  the 
Club  shall  be  as  follows : 

1.  On  Nomination  of  Officers  and  Members. 

2.  On  Arrangements  and  Exercises. 

3.  On  Rooms  and  Finance. 

Sec.  2.  Each  Standing  Committee  shall  consist 
of  a  Chairman  and  four  other  members,  who  shall 
be  elected  by  the  Club  at  the  annual  meeting  on 
the  second  Monday  in  June. 

Sec.  3.  The  several  Standing  Committees  shall 
perform  the  duties  implied  by  their  respective 
titles,  and  such  other  duties  as  may  be  specially 
imposed  upon  them  by  the  Club. 


8  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Sec.  4.  The  Committee  on  Rooms  and  Finance 
shall  have  charge  of  the  Club  rooms,  and  shall 
restrict  the  expenses  of  the  Club  to  its  income. 

Sec.  5.  The  members  of  the  three  Standing 
Committees,  together  with  the  President  and 
Secretaries,  shall  constitute  an  Electoral  Com- 
mittee. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee 
to  consider  and  vote  upon  any  application  for 
membership  submitted  by  the  Committee  on  Offi- 
cers and  Members.  It  shall  meet  at  least  once  a 
month,  provided  any  applications  are  submitted; 
and  ten  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business. 

Sec.  6.  The  regular  business  meetings  of  the 
Club  shall  be  the  times  for  stated  meetings  of  the 
Standing  Committees,  except  the  Electoral  Com- 
mittee; and  two  members  of  any  Standing  Com- 
mittee present  at  such  meetings  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

ARTICLE  VL 
MEETINGS. 
Section  i.  Regular  meetings  of  the  Club 
shall  be  held  on  every  Monday  evening  in  the 
year,  except  in  the  months  of  July,  August,  and 
September,  and  the  exercises  at  each  meeting  shall 
be  under  the  direction  of  the  Committee  on 
Arrangements  and  Exercises.     The  first  and  third 


CONSTITUTION.  9 

meetings  of  the  month  shall  be  for  literary  exer- 
cises. The  second  meeting  shall  be  for  conversa- 
tion and  entertainments,  of  which  written  papers 
shall  form  no  part.  The  fourth  meeting  shall  be 
devoted  to  the  business  of  the  Club  and  such 
exercises  as  the  committee  shall  provide.  The 
fifth  meeting  (if  any)  of  the  month  shall  be  for 
social  purposes  and  such  other  entertainments 
as  may  be  provided  by  the  committee  in  charge. 
Persons  not  residing  in  Chicago  or  vicinity  may 
be  present  at  meetings  of  the  Club,  u^Don  the 
invitation  of  a  member;  but  no  member  shall  be 
at  liberty  to  give  such  invitation  to  a  resident  of 
Chicago  or  vicinity. 

Sec.  2.  Additional  meetings  may  be  ordered 
by  the  Club,  or  called  by  the  President,  as  occa- 
sion may  require. 

Sec.  3.  The  order  of  proceedings  at  the  regular 
meetings  of  the  Club,  unless  otherwise  specially 
provided,  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the 
President. 

ARTICLE   VII. 
LITERARY   EXERCISES. 
Section  i.     The  literary  exercises  in  general 
shall  not  continue  more  than  one  hour. 

Sec.  2.  The  essayist  shall  select  his  own  sub- 
ject and  be  free  to  express  any  opinions  whatso- 
ever thereon. 


10  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Sec.  3.  The  Club,  as  such,  shall  express  no 
opinions  on  religion,  politics,  social  science,  politi- 
cal economy,  or  any  other  subject.  It  shall  not 
by  vote  endorse  or  condemn  any  paper  that  may 
be  read,  or  views  that  may  be  expressed  by  any 
member.  No  paper  at  the  time  it  is  read  shall  be 
open  to  adverse  criticism  in  the  Club. 

Sec.  4.  The  Committee  on  Arrangements  and 
Exercises  shall,  on  or  before  the  first  meeting  of 
the  Club  in  the  autumn,  prepare  and  print  a 
scheme  of  exercises,  with  the  dates,  and  the  names 
of  the  readers  and  the  editors  for  the  whole 
season.  The  subject  of  each  essayist  shall  be 
announced  at  the  meeting  next  preceding. 

ARTICLE   VIII. 

A   QUORUM. 
Twenty  regular  members  of  the  Club  shall  con- 
stitute a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business; 
but  a  less  number  shall  have  power  to  adjourn 
from  time  to  time. 

ARTICLE   IX. 

AMENDMENTS. 
The  Constitution  may  be  amended  at  any  busi- 
ness meeting  by  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members 
present,  provided  that  the  proposed  amendment 
shall  have  been  submitted  to  the  Club  at  the  busi- 
ness meeting  next  preceding. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  II 

List  of  Officers 

From  the  date  of  Organization,  April  21,  1874: 
1874. 

PRESIDENT, 

ROBERT  COLLYER. 

VICE  PRESIDENTS, 

John  A.  Jameson,  David  Swing, 

James  R.  Doolittle. 

TREASURER, 

William  F.  Coolbaugh, 

corresponding  secretary,  recording  secretary, 

Horatio  N.  Powers.  Edward  G.  Mason. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS    AND    MEMBERS, 

John  A.  Jameson, 
Thomas  S.  Chard,  Daniel  L.  Shorey, 

Josiah  L.  Pickard,  Charles  D.  Helmer. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

David  Swing, 
William  F.  Poole,  Kaufman  Kohler, 

Joseph  Haven,  William  Mathews. 

ON    ROOMS    AND    FINANCE, 

James  R.  Doolittle, 
John  C.  Burroughs,  Henry  Booth, 

Franklin  MacVeagh,        Alexander  C.  McClurg. 


12  CHICAGO    LITERARY    CLUB. 

1874-5. 

PRESIDENT, 

ROBERT  COLLYER. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

John  A.  Jameson,  David  Swing, 

Daniel  L.  Shorey. 

TREASURER, 

Franklin  MacVeagh. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY,  RECORDING   SECRETARY, 

Horatio  N.  Powers.  Edward  G.  Mason. 

COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS    AND    MEMBERS, 

John  A.  Jameson, 
Hosmer  a.  Johnson,  Charles  D.  Helmer, 

Leander  T.  Chamberlain,  Josiah  L.  Pickard. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

David  Swing, 
William  F.  Poole,  George  Rowland, 

Minot  J.  Savage,  William  E.  Furness, 

ON    ROOMS    AND    FINANCE, 

Daniel  L.  Shorey, 
Alexander  C.  McClurg,  William  E.  Doggett, 
Joseph  E,  Lockwood,         Hubert  S.  Brown. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  I3 

1875-6. 

PRESIDENT, 

CHARLES  B.  LAWRENCE. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Henry  Booth,  William  F.  Poole, 

Daniel  L.  Shorey. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

Horatio  N.  Powers. 

RECORDING    SECRETARY    AND    TREASURER, 

Edward  G.  Mason. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS   AND    MEMBERS, 

Henry  Booth, 
James  R.  Doolittle,  Alexander  C.  McClurg, 

Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr.,      Henry  D.  Lloyd. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

William  F.  Poole, 
Kaufman  Kohler,  William  E.  Furness, 

Charles  W.  Wendte,         Alfred  B.  Mason, 

ON    ROOIMS    AND    FINANCE, 

Daniel  L.  Shorey, 
Franklin  MacVeagh,        Edward  S.  Waters, 
John  C.  Patterson,  William  M.  R.  French. 


14  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

1876-7. 

PRESIDENT, 

HOSMER  A.  JOHNSON. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Edward  G.  Mason,  William  F.  Poole, 

Daniel  L.   Shorey. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

Leander  T.  Chamberlain. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Wm.  Eliot  Furness. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS   AND   MEMBERS, 

Edward  G.  Mason, 
Edwin  C.  Earned,  Edward  S.  Stickney, 

George  C.  Clarke,  Huntington  W.  Jackson. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

William  F.  Poole, 
Horace  White,  Joseph  B.  Leake, 

Joseph  Kirkland,  Isaac  N.  Arnold. 

ON    ROOMS    AND    FINANCE, 

Daniel  L.  Shorey, 
Edward  S.  Waters,  Franklin  MacVeagh, 

John  G.  Shortall,  George  Schneider. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  1 5 


1877-8. 


PRESIDENT, 

DANIEL  L.   SHOREY. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

John  Crerar,  Charles  G.  Smith, 

James  L.  High. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

James  N.  Hyde. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Wm.  Eliot  Furness. 
COMMITTEES: 

ON   OFFICERS   AND   MEMBERS, 

John  Crerar, 
William  H.  Clarke,  Ezra  B.  McCagg, 

James  S.  Norton,  James  A.  Hunt. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS   AND   EXERCISES, 

Charles  G.  Smith, 
Henry  H.  Babcock,  Brooke  Herford, 

Henry  A.  Huntington,    William  J.  Petrie. 

ON    ROOMS   AND   FINANCE, 

James  L.  High, 
Murry  Nelson,  Peter  B.  Wight, 

William  Macdonell,         George  E.  Adams. 


l6  CHICAGO    LITERARY    CLUB. 

1878-9. 

PRESIDENT, 

EDWARD  G.  MASON. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

William  F.  Poole,  Thos.  F.  Withrow, 

Huntington  W.  Jackson. 

CORRSPONDING    SECRETARY, 

Brooke  Herford. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Wm.  Eliot  Furness. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS   AND   MEMBERS, 

William  F.  Poole, 
Henry  W.  Bishop,  George  C.  Clarke, 

Owen  F.  Aldis,  Henry  Strong. 

ON   ARRANGEMENTS   AND    EXERCISES, 

Thomas  F.  Withrow, 
George  Howland,  Samuel  S.  Harris, 

William  Macdonell,         Abram  M.  Pence. 

ON    ROOMS   AND    FINANCE, 

Huntington  W,  Jackson, 
Robert  T.  Lincoln,  John  M.  Clark, 

Alexander  C.  McClurg,  Benjamin  M.  Wilson. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  I7 

1879-80. 

PRESIDENT, 

WILLIAM  F.  POOLE. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Benjamin  D,  Magruder,         Henry  H.  Babcock, 
John  G.   Shortall. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

George  Rowland. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Wm.  Eliot  Furness. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON   OFFICERS    AND    MEMBERS, 

Benjamin  D.  Magruder, 
William  H.  Barnum,         Murry  Nelson, 
Elbridge  G.  Keith,  Henry  B.  Mason. 

ON   ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

Henry  H.  Babcock, 
Trowbridge  B,  Forbush,  John  Crerar, 
William  E.   Strong,  Owen  F.  Aldis. 

ON    ROOMS   AND   FINANCE, 

John  G.  Shortall. 
Cecil  Barnes,         George  L.  Paddock, 
Bryan  Lathrop,        Samuel  P.  McConnell. 


l8  CHICAGO  LITERARY  CLUB. 


1880-I. 

PRESIDENT, 

BROOKE  HERFORD. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Henry  A.  Huntington,  George  C.   Clarke, 
Bryan  Lathrop. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

Arthur  Little. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Frederick  W.  Gookin. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON    OFFICERS   AND    MEMBERS, 

Henry  A.  Huntington, 
Alexander  C.  McClurg,  William  K.  Ackerman, 
R.  W.  Patterson,  Jr.,        William  G.  McMillan. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS   AND    EXERCISES, 

George  C.  Clarke, 
Norman  C.  Perkins,  Alfred  B.  Mason, 

John  G.  Rogers,  David  Swing. 

ON    ROOMS   AND   FINANCE, 

Bryan  Lathrop, 
Ephraim  a.  Otis,  Samuel  Bliss, 

Thomas  W.  Grover,  George  A.  Armour. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  I9 

1881-2. 

PRESIDENT, 

EDWIN  C.  LARNED. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

James  S.  Norton,  George  Rowland, 

Henry  D.  Lloyd. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

Henry  B.  Mason. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Frederick  W.  Gookin. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON   OFFICERS   AND   MEMBERS, 

James  S.  Norton, 
Franklin  MacVeagh,        Owen  F.  Aldis, 
Clarence  A.  Burley,        Horatio  L.  Wait. 

ON   ARRANGEMENTS   AND    EXERCISES, 

George  Howland, 
James  Nevins  Hyde,  Walter  C.  Earned, 

Joseph  Kirkland,  John  Crerar. 

ON    ROOMS   AND    FINANCE, 

Henry  D.  Lloyd, 
Wm.  Eliot  Furness,  George  L.  Paddock, 

Joseph  Adams,  Bryan  Lathrop. 


20  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

1882-3. 

PRESIDENT, 

GEORGE  ROWLAND. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

Alfred  Bishop  Mason,     Henry  A.  Huntington, 
Walter  C.  Earned. 

CORRESPONDING  SECRETARY, 

Henry  W.   Raymond. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY  AND  TREASURER, 

Frederick  W.  Gookin. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON   OFFICERS   AND    MEMBERS, 

Alfred  Bishop  Mason, 
Huntington  W.  Jackson,   Otho  S.  A.  Sprague, 
James  A.  Hunt,  Henry  D.  Lloyd. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS    AND    EXERCISES, 

Henry  A.  Huntington, 
Robert  W.Patterson,  Jr.,  Azel  F.  Hatch, 
Charles  N.  Fessenden,     James  P.  Kelly. 

ON    ROOMS   AND    FINANCE, 

Walter  C.  Earned, 
Alexander  C.  McClurg,   Charles  D.  Hamill, 
Thomas  W.  Grover,  Chester  M.  Dawes. 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS.  21 


1883-4. 

PRESIDENT, 

HENRY  A.   HUNTINGTON. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS, 

William  E.  Furness,  Joseph  Kirkland, 

George  L.  Paddock. 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARY, 

Charles  Norman  Fay. 

RECORDING   SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER, 

Frederick  W.  Gookin. 


COMMITTEES: 

ON   OFFICERS   AND    MEMBERS, 

William  Eliot  Furness, 
George  W.  Smith,  James  N.  Hyde, 

Horatio  L.  Wait,  David  Fales. 

ON    ARRANGEMENTS   AND   EXERCISES, 

Joseph  Kirkland, 
Benjamin  D.  Magruder,   William  E.  Strong, 
Joseph  B.  Leake,  George  P.  Welles. 

ON    ROOMS   AND   FINANCE, 

George  L,  Paddock, 
Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr.,  Henry  S.  Boutell, 
Samuel  P.  McConnell,  George  M.  Rogers. 


SCHEMES  OF  EXERCISES.  23 


Schemes  oe  Exercises. 


The  Chicago  Literary  Club  was  organized  April  21, 
1874,  when  a  Constitution  and  Code  of  By-Laws  were 
adopted  and  officers  were  elected.  Several  preliminary  con- 
ferences of  the  original  members  were  held  during  the  same 
and  the  preceding  month.  A  new  Constitution  was  adopted 
March  6,  1876;  and  revised  January  28,  1884. 

The  first  regular  meeting  of  the  Club,  after  its  organiza- 
tion, was  held  May  4,  1874,  at  the  Sherman  House,  where 
the  meetings  were  continued  until  November  22,  1875,  when 
the  Club  occupied  its  own  rooms  at  No.  74  Monroe  Street. 
On  May  i,  1881,  the  Club  removed  to  the  rooms  in  Port- 
land Block,  which  it  now  occupies. 

The  following  are  the  Schemes  of  Exercises  in  the  Club 
from  May  4,  1874,  to  the  present  time: 

1874. 

May  4.         Plan  of  Literary  Exercises  reported  and  adopted. 

May  18.       Essay^  by  Leander  T.  Chamberlain. 

Subject:  "  Physical  Pain ;   its  Nature  and  the 
Law  of  its  Distribution." 

June  I.         Election  of  Officers. 

June  15.       Annual  Dinner,  and  Inaugural  Address  by 
Robert  Collyer,  President-elect. 

1874-5- 
Oct.  5.         Informal. 

Oct.  19.       Essay,  by  Kaufman  Kohler. 

Subject:  "Myths  and  Miracles." 


24  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Oct.  29.       "Bryant  Dinner,"  at  Sherman  House. 

Nov.  3.       Essay,  by  William  Mathews. 
Subject:  "Thomas  DeQuincey." 

Nov.  16.     Essay,  by  Horace  W.  S.  Cleveland. 

Subject:    "  The  Artistic   Decoration  and    Im- 
provement of  our  Streets." 

Dec.  7.        Informal,  Horatio  N.  Powers,  Editor. 

Dec.  21.      Essay,  by  Charles  D.  Helmer. 
Subject:  "The  Ring." 

Jan.  4.        Essay,  by  Robert  Hervey. 

Subject :    "  The   Genius  and   Character  of 
Walter  Scott." 

Jan.  18.       Essay,  by  Simeon  Gilbert. 
Subject:  "The  Newspaper." 

Feb.  I.        Essay,  by  George  B.  Smith. 

Subject ;   "  Was   Lord   Bacon  the  Author   of 
Shakespeare?" 

Feb.  15.      Essay,  by  Charles  C.  Bonney. 

Subject:  "American  Antiquities." 

Mch.  I.       Essay,  by  Edward  G.  Mason. 

Subject:  "Arthur  Hugh  Clough." 

Mch.  15.     Essay,  by  John  A.  Jameson. 

Subject:  "Culture  and  Professional  Life." 

April  5.       Essay,  by  Joseph  Kirkland. 

Subject:  "Travel  and  Travelers." 

April  19.     Essay,  by  William  F.  Poole. 

Subject:    "  The  Origin  and  Secret  History  of 
the  Ordinance  of  1787." 


SCHEMES   OF   EXERCISES.  2$ 

May  3.         £ssay,  by  Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr. 

Subject:  "Method  in  Political  Economy." 

May  17.       Essay,  by  Henry  Booth. 

Subject:  "  Evidences  of  the  Resurrection 
Examined. " 

June  7.         Annual  Election  of  Officers. 

June  21.       Annual  Dinner,  and  Inaugural  Address  by 
Charles  B.  Lawrence,  President-elect. 

1875-6. 

Oct.  4.         Informal,  Horatio  N.  Powers,  Editor. 

Oct.  18.       Essay,  by  William  Macdonell, 
Subject:  "Wordsworth." 

Nov.  I.       Essay,  by  Charles  W.  Wendte. 
Subject:  "Church  and  State." 

Nov.  15.      Essay,  by  James  R.  Doolittle,  Jr. 
Subject:  "Chaucer." 

Nov.  22.      Informal  Gathering  at  new   Club  Rooms  in 
American  Express  Building. 

Dec.  6.        Inforjnal,  Joseph  Kirkland,  Editor. 

Dec.  20.      Essay,  by  Isaac  N.  Arnold. 

Subject:  "James  Fenimore  Cooper," 

Jan,  3.         Essay,  by  Edward  S.  Waters. 

Subject:  "The  Pottery  of  the  Renaissance." 

Jan.  17.       Essay,  by  Daniel  L.  Shorey. 

Subject:  "Recent  English  Legislation." 

Feb.  3.        Informal,  Wm.  Eliot  Furness,  Editor. 


26  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Feb.  21.      Essay f  by  John  C.  Patterson. 

Subject:  "American  Humorists." 

Mch.  6,       Essay,  by  Henry  B.  Mason. 
Subject:  "An  Old  Picture." 

Mch.  II.      Conversation,  Edwin  C.  Larned,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Influence  of  Modern  Fiction." 

Mch.  1 8.     Essay,  by  Joseph  B.  Leake. 

Subject:  "  Observations  on  the  Common  Law. " 

Mch.  25.      Business  and  Collation. 

April  I.       Informal,  Abram  M.  Pence,  Editor. 

April  8.       Conversation,  W.  L.  Fawcett,  Leader. 

Subject :   "  The   Press,    its   Function   and 
Influence. " 

April  15.     Essay,  by  Horace  White. 
Subject:  "Financial  Crises." 

April  22.     Business  and  Collation. 

April  29.     Essay,  by  Henry  H.  Babcock. 
Subject:  "Plant  Culture." 

May  6.         Essay,  by  William  J.  Petrie. 

Subject:  "  A  Student  of  Comparative  Theolo- 
gy Two  Hundred  Years  Ago." 

May  13.       Conversation,  Alfred  B.  Mason,  Leader, 

Subject:  "Public  and  Private  Charities;   their 
Uses  and  Abuses." 

May  20.       Essay,  by  Hosmer  A.  Johnson. 

Subject:  "Life:  what  do  we  know  about  it?" 


SCHEMES   OF  EXERCISES.  27 

May  27.       Essay,  by  Wm,  M.  R.  French. 

Subject:  "Chalk  vs.  Talk,  with  Illustrations." 

June  3.        Informal,  John  C.  Burroughs,  Editor. 

June  10.       Annual  Election. 

June  17.       Conversation,  Daniel  L.  Shorey,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Civil-Service  Reform." 

June  21.       Annual  Dinner,  and  Inaugural  Address  by 
Hosmer  a.  Johnson,  President-elect. 

1876-7. 

Oct.  2.         Essay,  by  Alfred  B.  Mason. 

Subject:  "The  Abolition  of  Poverty." 

Oct.  9.         Conversation,  Daniel  L.  Shorey,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Restoration  of  Specie  Basis." 

Oct.  16.       Essay,  by  Brooke  Herford. 

Subject:  "The  Need  of  more  Rest  in  Ameri- 
can Life." 

Business  and  Collation. 

Essay,  by  Wm.  M.  R.  French. 
Subject:  "Graphic  Art;  with  Illustrations." 

Informal,  James  S.  Norton,  Editor. 

Conversation,  Horace  White,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Centenary  of  Adam  Smith." 

Nov.  20.      Essay,  by  John  J.  La  lor. 
Subject:  "  Population. " 

Nov.  27.      Btisiness  and  Collation. 


Oct. 

23- 

Oct. 

30- 

Nov. 

6. 

Nov. 

13 

28  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Dec.  4.        Essay,  by  Henry  A.  Huntington. 
Subject:  "A  Neglected  Author." 

Dec.  II.       Conversation,  Wm.  H.  Ryder,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  American  Public  School." 

Dec.  18.      Essay,  by  Robert  Collyer. 

Subject:  "The  Compliments  of  the  Season." 

Jan.  8.         Essay,  by  Peter  B.  Wight. 

Subject :    "  The  Practice  of  Architecture  as  a 
Fine  Art." 

Jan.  22,       Informal,  Thomas  S.  Chard,  Editor. 

Jan.  29.       Business  and  Collation. 

Feb.  5.        Essay,  by  William  Mathews. 
Subject:  "  Sainte-Beuve." 

Feb.  12.       Conversation,  Daniel  L,  Shorey,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Government  of  Large  Cities." 

Feb.  19.      Essay,  by  Edward  S.  Isham. 

Subject:  "  Proudhon  as  a  Social  Phenomenon. " 

Feb.  26.       Business  a?td  Collation. 

Mch.  5.       Essay,  by  Charles  Oilman  Smith. 

Subject:  "The  Physical  Basis  of  Character." 

Mch.  12.      Conversation,  George  Howland,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  American  College." 

Mch.  19,     Informal,  John  Crerar,  Editor. 

Mch.  26.      Business  and  Collation. 

April  2.       Essay,  by  James  Nevins  Hyde. 

Subject:  "The  African  Republic." 


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April  9.        Conversation,  Ezra  B.  McCagg,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Literary  Men  in  Politics." 

April  16.     Essay,  by  John  J.  Schobinger. 

Subject:  "Glaciers  and  Climate." 

April  23,     Business  and  Collation. 

April  30.     Social. 

May  7.         Essay,  by  Edward  G.  As  ay. 
Subject:  "The  Bibliopole." 

May  14.        Conversation,  Wm.  F.  Poole,  Leader. 

Subject :   "  The  Opportunities  of  the  Man  of 
Means  and  Leisure." 

May  21.       Informal,  Homer  N.  Hibbard,  Editor. 

May  28.       Biisiness  and  Collation. 

June  4.        Essay,  by  Horace  W.  S.  Cleveland. 

Subject:   "Literary  Culture  in  a  Business 
Community, " 

June  II.       Anmial  Election, 

June  18.       Essay,  by  Joseph  B.  Leake. 

Subject:  "Eastern  Highways." 

June  25.       Annual  Dinner,   and  Inaugural  Address  by 
Daniel  L.  Shorey,  President-elect. 

1877-8. 

Oct.  I.        Essay,  by  James  S.  Jewell. 

Subject:  "The  Present  Condition  of  the  Dar- 
winian Theory." 


3©  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Oct.  8.         Conversation,  Brooke  Herford,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Labor  Troubles,  recent  and 
to  come." 

Oct.  15.       Informal,  Samuel  Appleton,  Editor. 

Oct.  22.       Business  and  Collation. 

Oct.  29.       Reception,     Essay,  by  Edward  S.  Waters. 
Subject:  "The  South  Kensington  Museum," 
Illustrated  by  Stereoptic  Views. 

Nov.  5.       Essay,  by  Henry  A.  Huntington. 

Subject:  "A  Predecessor  of  Tennyson." 

Nov.  12.      Conversation,  John  N.  Jewett,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Newspaper  Literature." 

Nov.  19.      Inforjual,  Benjamin  M.  Wilson,  Editor. 

Nov.  26.      Business  and  Collation. 

Dec.  3.        Essay,  by  Franklin  Denison. 
Subject:  "A  New  Epic." 

Dec.  10.       Conversation,  Samuel  S.  Harris,  Leader, 
Subject:  "European  Races  in  America." 

Dec.  17.      Essay,  by  Charles  A.  Gregory. 

Subject:  "The  History  of  It."  [Marcus  Tullius 
Cicero.] 

Jan.  7.         Essay,  by  Henry  W.  Raymond. 

Subject :    "  The    History  of  a    Miniature 
Republic. " 

Jan,  14.       Conversation,  Trowbridge  B,  Forbush, 

Leader. 
Subject:  "  The  Cause  and  Cure  of  Pauperism. " 


SCHEMES   OF  EXERCISES.  3 1 

Jan.  21.       Informal,  John  Wilkinson,  Editor. 
Jan.  28.       Business  and  Collation. 

Feb.  4.        Essay,  by  William  Macdonell. 
Subject:  "Utilitarianism." 

Feb.  II.       Conversation,  James  S.  Norton,  Leader. 

Subject:   "Relations  of  the  Legal  Profession 
to  the  Public." 

Feb.  18.      Informal,  John  G.  Shortall,  Editor. 

Feb.  25.       Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  4.       Essay,  by  Walter  C.  Larned. 

Subject:  "The  Devil  in  Literature." 

Mch.  II.      Conversation,  Ezra  B.  McCagg,  Leader. 

Subject:  "What  Knowledge  is  of  most  Worth?  " 

Mch.  18.     Informal,  Joseph  Kirkland,  Editor. 

Mch.  25.      Business  and  Collation. 

April  I.      Essay,  by  Horatio  L.  Wait. 
Subject:  "Mirth." 

April  8.       Conversation,  Thomas  F.  Withrow,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Literature  of  the  Law." 

April  15.     Informal,  JOHN  Crerar,  Editor. 

April  22.     Business  and  Collation. 

April  29.     Reception.     Essay,  by  William  H,  Clarke. 
Subject:  "Recollections  of  some  Literary 
Women  who  have  Visited  Chicago." 

May  6.        Essay,  by  Edward  F.  Williams. 

Subject:  "The  Outlook  for  Russia." 


32  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

May  13.       Conversation^  Henry  Strong,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Defects  in  American  Public 
Education. " 

May  20.       Conversation^  Henry  Strong,  Leader. 

Subject:  Continued  from  meeting  of  May  13th. 

May  27.       Business  and  Collation, 

June  3.        Essay^  by  James  L.  High. 

Subject:  "  A  great  Chancellor. "  [Lord  Eldon.] 

June  10.       Annual  Election. 

June  17.       Essay,  by  Owen  F.  Aldis. 

Subject:  "Louis  Napoleon  and  the  Southern 
Confederacy. " 

June  24.       Annual  Dinner,  and  Inatigural  Address  by 
Edward  G.  Mason,  President-elect. 

1878-9. 

Essay,  by  Augustus  Jacobson. 
Subject:  "Birth  and  Training." 

Conversation,  Henry  H,  Babcock,  Leader. 
Subject:  "What  should  be  the  Limits  of  Free 
Education  furnished  by  the  State?" 

Informal,  Joseph  Kirkland,  Editor. 

Business  and  Collation. 

Essay,  by  Walter  C.  Earned. 
Subject:  "Will  o'  the  Wisps." 

Nov.  II.      Conversation,  William  F.  Poole,  Leader. 

Subject :   "  The   Mission    and    Function   of 
Public  Libraries." 


Oct. 

7. 

Oct. 

14, 

Oct. 

21, 

Oct. 

28. 

Nov 

.  4. 

SCHEMES   OF    EXERCISES.  33 

Nov,  1 8.      Informal,  Thomas  S.  Chard,  Editor. 

Nov.  25.      Business  and  Collation. 

Dec.  2.        Essay,  by  James  A.  Hunt. 

Subject:  "The  English  in  India." 

Dec.  9.        Essay,  by  Alfred  B.  Mason. 
Subject:  "Inside  Politics." 

Dec.  16.      Essay,  by  David  Swing. 

Subject :  "  The  Roman  Empire. "     [A  Letter 
from  Tyro,  slave  of  Cicero,  to  Ximenes.] 

Dec.  23.       Business  and  Collation. 

Jan.  6.         Conversation,  Lyman  Trumbull,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Slavery  and  its  Abolition." 

Jan.  13.       Conversation,  Brooke  Herford,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Sunday  Question." 

Jan.  20.       Infor7nal,  Clarence  A.  Burley,  Editor. 

Jan.  27.       Business  and  Collation. 

Feb.  3.        Essay,  by  Edward  S.  Isham. 

Subject:  "Tumulto  dei  Ciompi. " 

Feb.  10.       Conversation,  Benj.  D.  Magruder,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Chinese  Question." 

Feb.  17.      Essay,  by  William  Mathews. 
Subject:  "Style." 

Feb.  24.      Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  3.       Essay,  by  Trowbridge  B.  Forbush. 
Subject:  "Education  and  Crime." 


34  CHICAGO  LITERARY   CLUB. 

Mch.  10.      Conversation,  Edmund  Andrews,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Mound  Builders." 

Mch.  17.     Informal,  Huntington  W.  Jackson,  Editor. 

Mch.  24.      Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  31.     Reception. 

April  7.       Essay,  by  George  L.  Paddock. 

Subject:    "  Historic  Periods  in  European 
Culture. » 

April  14.     Conversation,  Selim  H.  Peabody,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Utilitarianism  in  Education." 

April  21.     Informal,  John  Crerar,  Editor. 

April  28.     Business  and  Collation. 

May  5.        Essay,  by  Henry  A.  Huntington. 

Stibject:  "A  Royal  Cook's  Wife."  [Mrs. 
Centlivre.] 

May  12.       Conversation,  William  H.  Barnum,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Trial  by  Jury." 

May  19.       Informal,  Bryan  Lathrop,  Editor. 

May  26.       Business  and  Collation. 

June  2.         Essay,  by  Isaac  N.  Arnold. 

Subject:  "Personal  Reminiscences  of  Scotland 
and  Anecdotes  of  Scott." 

June  9.         Annual  Election. 

June  16,       Essay,  by  Thomas  W.  Grover. 
Subject:  "The  New  American." 


SCHEMES   OF   EXERCISES.  35 

June  23.       Conversation,  Benjamin  F.  Ayer,  Leader. 
Subject:  "  Railways. " 

1879-80. 

Oct.  6.  Annual  Reunion.  Inaugural  Address  by  Wm. 
F.  Poole,  the  President;  other  Addresses  and 
Collation. 

Oct.  13.       Conversation,  Daniel  L.  Shore y,  Leader. 

Subject:  "Socialism  in  the  United  States." 

Oct.  20.       Essay,  by  Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr. 

Subject:  "The  Transportation  Question." 

Oct.  29.       Business  and  Collation. 

Nov.  3.       Essay,  by  Charles  A.  Gregory. 

Subject:  "Concerning  the  Militia." 

Eftse  petit  placidam  sub  libertate  guietam. 

Nov.  10.      Conversation,  Homer  N.  Hibbard,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Reform  of  English  Spelling." 

Nov.  17.     Essay,  by  Cecil  Barnes. 

Subject:  "The  French  Constitution." 

Nov.  24.      Business  and  Collation. 

Dec.  I.       Essay,  by  Robert  W.  Patterson,  Jr. 

Subject:  "John  Wise,  the  first  great  American 
Democrat. " 

Dec.  8.        Conversation,  John  J.  Lalor,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Bi-Metalism." 

Dec.  15.      Informal,  P.  B.  Wight,  Editor. 

Dec.  22.      Business  and  Collation. 


Jan. 

5. 

Jan. 

12. 

Jan. 

19. 

Jan. 

26. 

Feb. 

2. 

CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Essay,  by  Norman  C.  Perkins. 
Subject:  "Socialism  in  Chicago." 

Conversation,  Henry  D.  Lloyd,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Cure  of  Vanderbiltism. " 

Essay,  by  Charles  A.  Dupee. 

Subject:  "The  Dissolution  of  the  Whig  Party. » 

Business  and  Collation. 

Essay,  by  Henry  L,  Tolman. 
Subject:  "Comparative  View  of  the  Develop- 
ment of  Literature  in  all  Languages." 

Feb.  9.         Conversation,  Galusha  Anderson,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Data  of  Ethics." 

Feb.  16.      Inforjnal,  Henry  B.  Mason,  Editor. 

Feb.  23.      Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  I.       Essay,  by  Pliny  N.  Haskell. 

Subject'.  "The  English  Land  Problem." 

Mch.  8.        Conversation,  Ephraim  A.  Otis,  Leader. 
Subject :  "  The  English  Constitution. " 

Mch.  15.     Essay,  by  John  J.  Lalor. 

Subject:  "An  Argument  for  Silver." 

Mch,  22.      Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  30.     Reception.     Essay,  by  Edward  G.  Mason. 
Subject:  "Old  Fort  Chartres." 

April  6.       Essay,  by  Samuel  P.  McConnell. 

Subject'.    "Will  there  be  a  Solution  of  the 
Labor  Question?" 


SCHEMES    OF   EXERCISES.  37 

April  13.     Conversation,  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Leader. 
Subject'.  "Thomas  Jefferson." 

April  20.     I/iformaiy  William  Mathews,  Editor. 

April  27.     Business  and  Collation. 

May  3.         Essay,  by  Arthur  W.  Windett, 

Subject :    "  The    Roman   Tribune    and   the 
Modern  Chancellor." 

May  10.       Conversation,  George  C.  Clarke,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Machine  in  Politics." 

May  17.       Essay,  by  James  B.  Runnion. 

Subject:  "The  Recent  Drama." 

May  24.       Business  and  Collation. 

June  7.        Essay,  by  Arthur  Little. 

Subject:  "The  Supernatural  in  Art." 

June  14.       Informal,  William  G.  McMillan,  Editor. 

June  22.       Election  of  Officers.     Business  and  Collation. 

1880-1. 

Oct,  4.  Annual  Reunion,  /naugzeral  Address  hy  BROOKE 
Herford,  the  President;  otAer  Addresses  and 
Collation. 

Oct.  8.         Special  Meeting,  Grand  Pacific  Hotel. 

Reception  and  Dinner  to  Mr.  Thos.  Hughes. 

Oct.  II.       Essay,  by  Henry  A.  Huntington. 
Subject \,  "Actor,  Soldier,  and  Poet." 

Oct.  18.       Conversation,  Edward  O.  Brown,  Leader. 

Subject :   "  The  Modern  Idea  of  Progress :    Is 
it  Fallacious?" 


38  CHICAGO    LITERARY   CLUB, 

Oct.  25.       Business  and  Collation. 

Nov.  I.       Essay,  by  Henry  T.  Steele, 

Subject:  "The  Deformed  Spelling," 

Nov.  15,      Essay,  by  George  Rowland. 

Subject:  "A  Metrical  Translation." 

Nov.  22,      Business  and  Collation. 

Nov.  29,      Essay,  by  Joseph  Kirkland, 
Subject:  "  Chicago, " 

Dec.  6.         Conversation,  Brooke  Herford,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Land  Question  in  Ireland," 

Dec.  13.      Essay,  by  Charles  B.  Lawrence. 
Subject:  "Gouverneur  Morris," 

Dec.  20.      Informal,  Samuel  Appleton,  Editor. 

Dec.  27.       Biisiness  and  Collation. 

Jan,  3.         Conversation,  John  N.  Jewett,  Leader. 

Subject:  "  The  Authority  of  Legislation  over 
Private  Rights  and  Private  Property, " 

Jan.  10.       Essay,  by  James  Nevins  Hyde, 

Subject:  "National  Traits  in  Medicine." 

Jan.  17.       Conversation,  Benjamin  M.  Wilson,  Leader, 
Subject :  "  Taxation. " 

Jan.  24,       Business  and  Collation. 

Jan.  31,       Annual  Reception,   ^j-j-^jj/,  by  W,  M.  R,  French. 
Subject:  "The  Styles  of  Michael  Angelo  and 
Phidias  Compared  and*  Illustrated. " 

Feb.  7.         Conversation,  Thos.  S.  Chard,  Leader. 

Subject:   "Our  Social    Relations  with  the 
Unfortunate. " 


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Feb.  14,       Conversation,  Murry  Nelson,  Leader. 

Subject:  "The  Duties  and  Responsibilities  of 
the  Citizen  to  the  City." 

Feb,  21.      Informal,  John  Crerar,  Editor. 

Feb.  28.       Business  and  Collation. 

Mch.  7.        Essay,  by  Ezra  B.  McCagg. 
Subject:  "Adelard  of  Bath." 

Mch.  14.     Essay,  by  Henry  W.  Raymond, 

Subject:  "Hark!  from  the  Tombs." 

Mch.  21.     Essay,  by  Isaac  N,  Arnold. 

Subject :    "  Reminiscences  of  Congress  during 
the  Rebellion." 

Mch.  28.      Business  and  Collation. 

April  4.       Conversation,  Elbridge  G.  Keith,  Leader, 

Subject:  "  The  Relation  of  Education  to  Uni- 
versal Suffrage." 

April  II,     Essay,  by  Alfred  Bishop  Mason, 

Subject:    "A  Man  and  his  Money:    a  Moral 
Novelette, " 

April  18,     Informal,  Chas,  Oilman  Smith,  Editor. 

April  25.     Business  and  Collation. 

May  9.        Essay,  by  Martin  D,  Hardin. 
Subject:  "Army  Experiences," 

May  16.       Conversation,  Franklin  MacVeagh,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Political  Education." 

May  23.       Business  and  Collation. 


40  CHICAGO    LITERARY   CLUB. 

May  30,       Conversation,  Brooke  Herford,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Greek  Play  at  Harvard." 

June  6.         Essay,  by  George  E.  Adams. 

Subject:  "Ideals  in  Education." 

June  13.       Election  of  Officers.     Business  and  Collation. 


1881-2. 

Oct.  3,  Annual  Reunion.  Inaugural  Address  hy 'ET>Vfi^ 
C.  Earned,  the  President;  other  Addresses  and 
Collation. 

Oct.  10.       Essay,  by  Charles  W.  Wendte. 
Subject:  "Genius  in  Art." 

Oct.  17.       Conversation,  Frank  Gilbert,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Competitive  Transportation." 

Oct.  24.       Informal,  Emilius  C.  Dudley,  Editor. 

Oct.  31.       Business  and  Collation. 

Nov.  7.       Essay,  by  George  F.  Harding. 
Subject:  "Civil- Service  Reform." 

Nov.  14,      Conversation,  Edward  G.  Mason,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Vice- Presidency." 

Nov.  21.      Essay,  by  Horatio  L.  Wait. 
Subject:  "Fort  Sumter." 

Nov.  28.      Business  and  Collation. 

Dec.  5.        Essay,  by  Charles  Norman  Fay. 

Subject :   "  The  Telephone  and   Kindred 
Inventions. " 


Jan, 

9- 

Jan. 

1 6. 

Jan. 

2Z- 

Jan. 

30. 

SCHEMES    OF   EXERCISES.  4I 

Dec.  12.      Conversation,  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Gladstone." 

Dec.  19.      Conversation,  Henry  Strong,  Leader. 

Subject:   "  Is  Buckle's  Theory  of  Civilization 
the  True  Theory?" 

Conversation,  Charles  D,  Hamill,  Leader. 
Subject:  "A  Talk  about  Engravings." 

Essay,  by  Frederick  Courtney. 
Subject:  "  Symbolism." 

Business  and  Collation. 

Reception.     Essay,  by  Walter  C.  Larned. 
Subject:  "No  Art  without  the  Ideal;  no  Liter- 
ature without  the  Supernatural." 

Feb.  6.         Conversation,  Brooke  Herfokd,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Aristocracy  in  America." 

Feb.  13.       Conversation,  James  L.  High,  Leader. 

Subject :    "  What   shall    we  do  with   the 
Murderers?" 

Feb.  20.       Conversation,  Joseph  B.  Leake,  Leader. 
Subject:  "The  Indian  Question." 

Business  and  Collation. 

Conversation,  Abram  M.  Pence,  Leader. 
Subject :   "  The    Condition   and    Prospects   of 
Protestantism. " 

Essay,  by  Henry  B,  Mason. 
Subject:  "  Railroad  Oracles. " 

Essay,  by  Huntington  W.  Jackson. 
Subject:  "Gettysburg." 


Feb. 

27. 

Mch. 

6. 

Mch. 

13- 

Mch. 

20. 

42  CHICAGO  LITERARY  CLUB. 

Mch.  27.      Business  and  Collation. 

April  3.       Essay,  by  Francis  O.  Lyman. 

Subject:  "Hawaiian  Volcanoes." 

April  10.     Conversation,  Henry  D.  Lloyd,  Leader. 

Subject:   "The  Political  Economy  of  Fifteen 
Millions. " 

April  17.     Conversation,  William  F.  Poole,  Leader. 
Subject:  "  Witchcraft. " 

April  24.     Business  and  Collation. 

May  I.         Informal,  James  P.  Kelly,  Editor. 

May  8.        Essay,  by  George  Howland. 

Subject:  "What  shall  we  Teach  our  Boys?" 

May  15.      Essay,  by  Augustus  Jacobson. 
Subject:  "American  Problems." 

May  22.       Business  and  Collation. 

May  29.      Essay,  by  Alexander  C.  McClurg. 

Subject:   "A  Decisive  Battle  and  its  Untold 
Story. " 

June  5.         Essay,  by  Owen  F.  Aldis. 

Subject:  "A  Letter  to  Jefferson  Davis." 

June  12.       Election  of  Officers.     Business  and  Collation. 

1882-3. 

Oct.  2.  Annual  Reunion.  Inaugural  Addi^ess  by  Geo. 
Howland,  the  President;  other  Addresses  and 
Collation. 


SCHEMES   OF   EXERCISES.  43 

Oct.  9.         Essay,  by  Edwin  C.  Larned. 

Subject :  "  The  Chicago  Fire  and  the  Relief 
Work." 

Conversation,  Samuel  Bliss,  Leader. 
Stcbject:  "Character." 

Business. 
Informal,  George  L,  Paddock,  Editor. 

Reception.     Essay,  by  James   S.  Norton. 
Subject:  "The  Confessions  of  a  Millionare. " 

Essay,  by  William  E.  Strong. 
Subject:  "  The  Siege  of  Vicksburg. " 

Conversation,  Emil  G.  Hirsch,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Reform-Judaism." 

Essay,  by  Robert  Forsyth. 
Subject:  "  Development  of  the  Modern  Steel 
Industry. " 

Business. 
Informal,  Samuel  H.  Kerfoot,  Jr.,  Editor. 

Essay,  by  William  K.  Ackerman. 

Subject:  "Early  Attempts  at  Railroad  Build- 
ing in  Illinois." 

Reception  to  Francis  Seymour  Haden. 

Conversatio7i,  Elbridge  G.  Keith,  Leader. 
Subject :    "  The    Fourth   of  July  and   its 
Observance. " 

Dec,  18.      Essay,  by  Herrick  Johnson, 

Subject:  "The  Special  Demands  of  the  Coun- 
try upon  the  Educated  Men  of  this  Gen- 
eration. " 


Oct. 

16. 

Oct. 

23- 

Oct. 

30- 

Nov. 

6. 

Nov. 

13- 

Nov. 

20. 

Nov, 

27. 

Dec. 

4- 

Dec. 

9- 

Dec, 

II. 

44  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Jan.  8.        Essay,  by  Henry  T.  Steele. 
Subject:  "Patent  Ethics." 

Jan,  15.       Essay,  by  James  Nevins  Hyde. 
Subject:  "The  Two  Stonewalls." 

Jan.  29.       Business. 

Feb.  5.        Essay,  by  Walter  C.  Larned. 

Subject:   "An   Impression   of   Jean    Francois 
Millet." 

Feb.  12.       Conversation,  Murry  Nelson,  Leader. 
Subject:  "  Corners. " 

Feb.  19.      Essay,  by  Henry  S.  Boutell. 
Subject:  "Chaucer." 

Feb.  26.      Business. 

Informal,  Charles  Oilman  Smith,  Editor. 

Mch.  5.       Essay,  by  Edward  S.  Isham. 
Subject:  "Pompey. " 

Mch.  12.      Conversation,  Samuel  P.  McConnell,  Leader. 
Subject:    "  What  Ought  to  be  the  Limitation 
to  Majority  Oovernment?" 

Mch.  19.     Essay,  by  John  W.  Root. 

Subject:  "The  Art  of  Abstract  Color." 

Mch.  26.      Business. 

Informal,  William  Eliot  Furness,  Editor. 

April  9.        Conversation,  Arthur  Little,  Leader. 
Subject:  "  Divorce. " 

April  16.     Essay,  by  William  L.  B.  Jenney. 
Subject:  "The  Fossils  of  History," 


SCHEMES    OF    EXERCISES,  45 

April  23.      Business. 

Informal,  George  Mills  Rogers,  Editor. 

April  30.      Essay,  by  George  W.  Smith. 

Subject:  "The  Battle  of  Franklin." 

May  7.         Essay,  by  Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr. 
Subject:  "Congested  Prices." 

May  14.       Conversation,  Joseph  Kirkland,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Protection." 

May  21.       Essay,  by  Edward  O.  Brown, 

Subject:    "  The  Catholics  of  England  in  the 
Seventeenth  Century. " 

May  28.       Business.     Nomination  of  Officers. 
Essay,  by  William  F.  Poole. 

Subject:  "Mr.   Bancroft  and  the  Ordinance 
of  1787," 

June  4.         Essay,  by  Owen  F.  Aldis. 

Subject:  "State  Rights— North  and  South." 

June  II.       Business.     Election  of  Officers. 


1883-4. 

Oct.  I.  Annual  Reunion.  Inaugural  Address  hy  ^y.'SRY 
A.  Huntington,  the  President;  other  Ad- 
dresses and  Collation. 

Oct.  8.        Essay,  by  George  F.  Harding. 
Subject:  "Charles  James  Fox." 

Oct.  15.       Essay,  by  Daniel  Goodwin,  Jr. 
Subject:  "The  Dearborns." 


46 

Oct. 

22. 

Oct. 

29. 

Nov. 

5- 

Nov. 

12. 

CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

Business. 
Informal,  Henry  S.  Boutell,  Editor. 

Reception.     Essay,  by  David  Swing. 
Subject:  "Excess." 

Essay,  by  Edward  G.  Mason. 
Subject:  "A  Visit  to  South  Carolina  in  i860." 

Conversation,  Herrick  Johnson,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Fraternal  Relations." 

Nov.  19.     Essay,  by  Area  N.  Waterman. 

Subject :   "  The  War  in  its   Effect  on   Public 
and  Private  Opinion." 

Nov.  26.      Business. 

Informal,  John  J.  Schobinger,  Editor. 

Dec.  3.        Essay,  by  Cyrus  Bentley,  Jr. 
Subject:  «The  Third  Estate." 

Dec.  10.      Conversation,  Chas.  Oilman  Smith,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Cholera." 

Dec.  17.      Informal,  Emilius  C.  Dudley,  Editor. 

Jan.  7.         Essay,  by  Henry  B,  Mason. 
Subject:  "The  Law's  Delays." 

Jan.  14.       Essay,  by  John  A.  Jameson. 

Subject:  "Is  our  Civilization  Perishable?" 

Jan.  20.       Reception  to  Matthew  Arnold. 

Jan.  21.       Essay,  by  George  W.  Smith. 

Subject:  "Letters  from  an  Illinois  Garret." 

Jan.  28.       Business. 

Informal,  Chester  M.  Dawes,  Editor. 


SCHEMES    OF   EXERCISES.  47 

Feb.  4.        Essay,  by  Robert  Williams. 
Subject:  "Leon  Gambetta." 

Feb,  II,       Conversation,  George  C.  Noyes,  Leader. 
Subject:  "Immigration." 

Feb.  18.      Essay,  by  Hosmer  A.  Johnson. 
Subject:  "Preventive  Medicine." 

Business. 
Inforjnal,  Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  Jr.,  Editor. 

Essay,  by  Horatio  L.  Wait. 

Subject:  "Reminiscences  of  the  Blockade." 

Essay,  by  James  L.  High. 
Subject :   "  Upon  Certain  Tendencies  in  the 
Legal  Profession." 

Essay,  by  Henry  W.  Blodgett. 
Subject:  "Early  Mormonism  in  Illinois." 

Essay,  by  Frank  Gilbert. 

Subject:  "American  Financial  Innovation." 

Business. 
Informal,  Emil  G.  Hirsch,  Editor. 

Essay,  by  Samuel  Fallows. 
Subject:  "  New  Dictionaries  and  the  Common 
People." 

Essay,  by  Henry  D.  Lloyd. 

Subject:  "Too  Much  of  Everything." 

Essay,  by  Edward  F.  Williams. 

Subject :    "  Oxford   and    the   High    Church 
Anglicans, " 

April  28.     Business.    Informal,  Geo.  L.  Paddock,  Editor. 


Feb. 

25- 

Mch. 

3- 

Mch. 

10. 

Mch. 

17. 

Mch. 

24. 

Mch. 

31- 

April  7. 

April 

14. 

April 

21. 

48  CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 

May  5.        Essay,  by  Peter  B.  Wight. 

Stibject :   "  The  Development  of  New  Phases 
of  the  Fine  Arts  in  America." 

May  12.       Conversation,  William  H,  Barnum,  Leader. 
Subject:    "  Chief- Justice   John   Marshall,   the 
Expounder  of  the  Constitution. " 

May  19.       Essay,  by  Theobald  Forstall. 
Subject:  "Gas." 

May  26.       Business.     Nomination  of  Officers. 
Essay,  by  Walter  C.  Larned. 

Subject :  "  The  Myth  of  Siegfried  and  Wag- 
ner's Nibelungen  Trilogie. " 

June  2.         Essay,  by  Charles  Edward  Cheney. 
Subject:  "Priest  and  Soldier." 

June  9.         Business.     Election  of  Officers. 


REGULAR   MEMBERS. 


49 


Regular  Members 


May  I,  li 


William  K.  Ackerman, 
Charles  Adams, 
George  E.  Adams, 
Joseph  Adams, 
Owen  F.  Aldis, 
Galusha  Anderson, 
Edmund  Andrews, 
Edward  G.  Asay, 
George  A.  Armour, 
Benjamin  F,  Ayer, 
William  H.  Barnum, 
Adolphus  C.  Bartlett, 
Alfred  Bartow, 
George  Batchelor, 
Henry  H.  Belfield, 
Cyrus  Bentley,  Jr., 
Henry  W.  Bishop, 
Timothy  B.  Blackstone, 
Edward  T.  Blair, 
Eliphalet  W.  Blatchford, 
Samuel  Bliss, 
Henry  W.  Blodgett, 
James  St.  Clair  Boal, 
Henry  Booth, 
Henry  S.  Boutell, 
Wm.  Harrison  Bradley, 
Edward  O,  Brown, 
Clarence  A.  Burley, 
John  C,  Burroughs, 


George  C.  Campbell, 
Charles  G.  Carleton, 
Leslie  Carter, 
William  H.  Chappell, 
Thomas  S.  Chard, 
Charles  M.  Charnley, 
James  Charnley, 
Charles  Edward  Cheney, 
John  M.  Clark, 
Frederick  W,  Clarke, 
George  C.  Clarke, 
John  Crerar, 
Chester  M.  Dawes, 
Albert  M.  Day, 
Franklin  Denison, 
Emilius  C.  Dudley, 
Charles  A.  Dupee, 
Lawrence  C.  Earle, 
Nathaniel  K.  Fairbank, 
David  Fales, 
Samuel  Fallows, 
John  V.  Farwell,  Jr., 
Charles  Norman  Fay, 
Charles  N,  Fessenden, 
Theobald  Forstall, 
James  W.  Forsyth, 
Henry  V,  Freeman, 
Charles  G.  Fuller, 
Melville  W.  Fuller, 


so 


CHICAGO   LITERARY  CLUB. 


Charles  W.  FuUerton, 
William  Eliot  Furness, 
Lyman  J.  Gage, 
George  Gardner, 
Frank  Gilbert, 
John  J.  Glessner, 
Daniel  Goodwin,  Jr., 
Frederick  W.  Gookin, 
Frederick  Greeley, 
Samuel  S.  Greeley, 
Charles  A.  Gregory, 
Thomas  W.  Grover, 
Charles  D.  Hamill, 
George  F.  Harding, 
Azel  F.  Hatch, 
Charles  M.  Henderson, 
Robert  J.  Hendricks, 
John  J.  Herri ck, 
Porter  P.  Hey  wood, 
Homer  N.  Hibbard, 
James  L.  High, 
Emil  G.  Hirsch, 
Charles  S.  Holt, 
Oliver  H.  Horton, 
George  Howland, 
Edward  D.  Hosmer, 
James  L.  Houghteling, 
James  A.  Hunt, 
Henry  A.  Huntington, 
James  Nevins  Hyde, 
Edward  S.  Isham, 
Huntington  W.  Jackson, 
Augustus  Jacobson, 
John  A.  Jameson, 


William  L.  B.  Jenney, 
John  N.  Jewett, 
Herrick  Johnson, 
Hosmer  A.  Johnson, 
Lorenzo  M.  Johnson, 
Thomas  D.  Jones, 
Elbridge  G.  Keith, 
James  P.  Kelly, 
Samuel  H.  Kerfoot,  Jr., 
Henry  W.  King, 
Joseph  Kirkland, 
Walter  C.  Lamed, 
Bryan  Lathrop, 
Joseph  B.  Leake, 
Leslie  Lewis, 
Arthur  Little, 
Henry  D.  Lloyd, 
Clinton  Locke, 
David  B.  Lyman, 
Henry  M.  Lyman, 
Ezra  B.  McCagg, 
Alexander  C.  McClurg, 
Samuel  P.  McConnell, 
Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  Jr., 
William  G.  McMillan, 
Simon  J.  McPherson, 
Franklin  MacVeagh, 
Edgar  Madden, 
Benjamin  D.  Magruder, 
Alfred  B.  Mason, 
Edward  G.  Mason, 
Henry  B.  Mason, 
George  W.  Meeker, 
Henry  G.  Miller, 


REGULAR    MEMBERS. 


51 


Samuel  M.  Moore, 
Murry  Nelson, 
James  S.  Norton, 
George  C.  Noyes, 
John  T.  Noyes, 
Ephraim  A,  Otis, 
George  L,  Paddock, 
Alonzo  W.  Paige, 
Robert  W.  Patterson,  Jr., 
Francis  B.  Peabody, 
Emerson  W.  Peet, 
James  H.  Peirce, 
Abram  M.  Pence, 
William  F.  Poole, 
Sartell  Prentice, 
George  Mills  Rogers, 
John  G.  Rogers, 
Joseph  M.  Rogers, 
John  W.  Root, 
Julius  Rosenthal, 
James  B.  Runnion, 
Osborne  Sampson, 
George  Schneider, 
John  J.  Schobinger, 
John  M.  Schofield, 
Moses  L.  Scudder,  Jr., 
Edwin  H.  Sheldon, 
Daniel  L.  Shorey, 
John  G.  Shortall, 
Joseph  L.  Silsbee, 
Mark  Skinner, 
Charles  Oilman  Smith, 


Frederick  B.  Smith, 
George  W.  Smith, 
Albert  A.  Sprague, 
Otho  S,  A.  Sprague, 
Henry  T.  Steele, 
William  R.  Stirling, 
Henry  B.  Stone, 
Henry  Strong, 
William  E,  Strong, 
David  Swing, 
Charles  H.  Taylor, 
John  M.  Thacher, 
John  L.  Thompson, 
Slason  Thompson, 
Lyman  Trumbull, 
Murray  F.  Tuley, 
David  N.  Utter, 
Horatio  L.  Wait, 
Arba  N.  Waterman, 
George  P.  Welles, 
Peter  B.  Wight, 
Dudley  P.  Wilkinson, 
John  Wilkinson, 
Edward  F.  Williams, 
Norman  Williams, 
Robert  Williams, 
Benjamin  M.  Wilson, 
John  P.  Wilson, 
Arthur  W.  Windett, 
Frederick  S.  Winston, 
Thomas  F.  Withrow. 


52 


CHICAGO   LITERARY   CLUB. 


Non-Resident  Members: 


Samuel  W.  Andrew, 
William  Alvin  Bartlett, 
Arthur  Brooks, 
Hubert  S.  Brown, 
Leander  T,  Chamberlain, 
Eliot  C.  Clarke, 
Robert  Collyer, 
Frederick  Courtney, 
Louis  Dyer, 
Trobridge  B.  Forbush, 
Robert  Forsyth, 
William  M.  R.  French, 
Martin  D.  Hardin, 
Samuel  S.  Harris, 
Pliny  N.  Haskell, 
George  P.  A.  Healy, 
Brooke  Herford, 
Robert  A.  Holland, 
James  J.  Hoyt, 
David  S.  Johnson, 
Edwin  C.  Lamed, 
Charles  S.  Lester, 
Robert  T.  Lincoln, 
Roswell  H.  Mason, 
William  Matthews, 
Victor  Morawetz, 
Lemuel  Moss, 
Selim  H.  Peabody, 
Bronson  Peck,  Jr., 
Norman  C.  Perkins, 


Boston,  Mass. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York  City. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Brooklyn,  N.Y. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  York  City. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Cambridge,  Mass. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Quincy,  111. 
Detroit,  Mich. 

Paris,  France. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Springfield,  111. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Pilatka,  Florida. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  York  City. 
Bloomington,  Ind. 
Champaign,  111. 
London,  Eng. 
Detroit,  Mich. 


NON-RESIDENT    MEMBERS. 


53 


Josiah  L.  Pickard, 
Robert  P.  Porter, 
Horatio  N.  Powers, 
Henry  W.  Raymond, 
Minot  J.  Savage, 
Robert  D.  Sheppard, 
Edward  S.  Waters, 
Charles  W.  Wendte, 
Horace  White, 


Iowa  City,  Iowa. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Germantown,  Pa. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Aurora,  111. 
Jamestown,  Dak, 
Newport,  R.  I. 
New  York  City. 


Honorary  Members 


Francis  Seymour  Haden, 
Thomas  Hughes, 
Philip  H.  Sheridan, 


London,  Eng, 
London,  Eng. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


54 


CHICAGO  LITERARY   CLUB, 


Deceased  Members: 


Charles  T.  Adams, 
John  W.  Andrews, 
Isaac  N.  Arnold, 
Henry  H.  Babcock, 
Cecil  Barnes, 
Orville  J.  Bliss, 
William  Hull  Clarke, 
William  E,  Doggett, 
Joseph  Haven, 

Joseph 


Charles  D.  Helmer, 
Charles  Hitchcock, 
Max  Hjortsberg, 
Charles  B,  Lawrence, 
Joseph  E.  Lockwood, 
William  Macdonell, 
Edward  A.  Small, 
Edward  S.  Stickney, 
James  M.  Walker, 
D.  Webster. 


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